Chad Elliott Promotional Materials and Links
Links
Website: www.chadelliott.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/elliottmusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/chadelliottlive
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/chadelliottmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/chadelliottmusic/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/chadelliottmusic
Venmo: @ChadElliottMusic
Paypal: http://PayPal.me/ChadElliottMusic
Patreon: http://Patreon.com/ChadElliott
Videos
Solo:
"Same Old Way" Official Video - http://youtu.be/ZYTRM7BG9jA
"Brooklyn" Live Recording - https://youtu.be/aFtdQy8e8mE
"Mystery to Me" Live Recording - https://youtu.be/Dhsjwof4B3Q
Band:
"Shy of Shameless" Official Video at Sun Studio - https://youtu.be/uDJ-7nhmbO4
"Saint James Infirmary" Live w/ Full Band - https://youtu.be/G655fnIdYcU
Booking/Press Contact
Alyssa Elliott
www.homefirebooking.com
[email protected]
515-460-5634
Stage Plots
Chad Elliott Solo Stage Plot
Songwriting Short Bio:
Midwest singer-songwriter Chad Elliott blends folk roots, swampy blues and soulful writing to deliver music that is unmistakably original. His live performances have been honed over 25 years on the road performing more than 200 shows each year. Elliott is lauded as “Iowa’s Renaissance man” by Culture Buzz Magazine.
Songwriting Full Bio:
“In 1996, I was a young artist. I graduated college, got married and moved from Iowa to remote Northwest Montana. Finding work was difficult. To make ends meet, I took a job painting signs. When I wasn't holding a brush, I began teaching myself how to write songs and play guitar beside the clear, rolling rivers in the Rocky Mountain shadows. Thus began my lifelong endeavor to be a folksinger.” - Chad Elliott
Nearly 30 years have passed since those first songs sprang to life. Now, Midwest singer-songwriter Chad Elliott blends folk roots, swampy blues and soulful writing to deliver music that is unmistakably original. His live performances have been honed over 25 years on the road performing more than 200 shows each year.
Elliott is lauded as “Iowa’s Renaissance man” by Culture Buzz Magazine. He has penned more than 2,000 songs in his career while also cultivating his skills as a painter, sculptor and illustrator at Elliott Art Studio in Jefferson, IA. Elliott is also an author (Wilderman’s Treetop Tales; Rumble & Flash).
“That man’s music is as honest as was Woody Guthrie’s.” - Atesh Sonneborn, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Elliott has worked with many of the best folk-blues songwriters and shared the stage with artists of the highest caliber, including Odetta, Tom Paxton, Loudon Wainwright III, R.L. Burnside, Greg Brown, Ruthie Foster, Verlon Thompson, Jimmie Vaughan, Bo Ramsey and Mary Gauthier.
Through the years, Elliott has been influenced by many genres of music. This passion is reflected in his diverse recording projects. Elliott released his 22nd album, Rest Heavy: The Sun Studio Sessions, in 2018. Greg Brown said of the new album, it’s “low, loose and full of juice. This album’s got a lot of life to it.”
With Rest Heavy, Elliott shows his love of roots-rock, soul, and blues music with a rocking band behind his artfully crafted songs and gravelly delivery. Elliott, performing on acoustic guitar and harmonica, is joined by his full band, The Redemptions, including Tommy Lewis, Travis McFarlane, Kevin Boehnke, Joseph Cafaro, and Jim Van Dorn. The self-produced album was recorded at the famed Sun Studio in Memphis, TN by Ples Hampton. Hampton said, “It was honestly one of the best sessions I've ever had up here. This is gold.”
In November 2019 Elliott released King Pelican. This album holds 8 tracks recorded live with his band, The Redemptions, during a set for The Sun Studio Sessions documentary series featured on PBS. The entire album delivers the goods. It is a colorful album including songs such as the title track, a fun New Orleans-style number about a ne'er-do-well character, and "Paris," which would make Humphrey Bogart shed a tear. King Pelican was released Nov. 3, 2019.
Elliott’s 24th studio album, Tangle with the Ghost, is a rich collection of Americana roots songs. It was recorded alongside other Iowa artists at Old School Studios in Auburn, IA with producer/artist Todd Partridge. The record is sonically diverse. Each track is like a painting or vignette reckoning with the dark night of the soul. “Sometimes you must do the things that frighten you the most. That’s why I still tangle with the ghost,” Elliott sings on the title track. Tangle with the Ghost was released in November 2020.
Chad Elliott released his 25th album, Singing River, on May 17, 2021. He traveled to Muscle Shoals, AL with famed Iowa musician and producer Bo Ramsey to lay the tracks. Singing River was recorded at FAME Recording Studios, where music legends Etta James, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and many others laid renowned songs into the fabric of time. Ramsey, who produced Singing River, lent his signature sound on guitar. He was joined by two original Muscle Shoals Swampers, Spooner Oldham and David Hood. The new Americana/roots/blues mix that arose in Singing River is exactly the sound Elliott was hoping to create.
With 25 albums under his belt, Elliott's writing is highly respected among his peers of fellow songwriters. His songs have won multiple awards. (Woody Guthrie Song Contest, Kerrville NewFolk, 3rd Place International Songwriting Competition, International Blues Challenge Semi-finalist). Elliott is releasing his 26th album, Untested Wings, in 2024.
Along with his solo concerts, Elliott performs as part of the folk duo Weary Ramblers. Kathryn Severing Fox, a celebrated string player, is the second part of this duo. Weary Ramblers are set to release their debut album in 2024.
Press Quotes:
"This album just oozes soul, truth, and seems rather timeless as it could have been recorded almost any time in the last fifty-sixty years." - Jim Hynes, Elmore Magazine review of Rest Heavy (US)
"There is so much to be loved about this album. From start to finish, it's a masterpiece of deep soul and blues that shows you all the pictures of the places that inspired its sounds in every song. You need this album in your collection..." - Amanda Marcazo, The Jamwich magazine review of Rest Heavy (US)
“Chad Elliott has assembled not only a great group of songs, but some of Nashville's finest roots music practitioners and producer drummer Ken Coomer to make a soulful and beautiful album. Townes would be proud.” - Will Kimbrough said of Chad Elliott'sWreck and Ruin album
"That breaks my heart and puts it back together again," - Lori Walsh, South Dakota Public Radio (US), of "Painters and Boxers" song
"Chad Elliott is a veteran singer/songwriter who writes smooth, feel good songs ranging from soulful drinking songs to upbeat road-tunes to down and dirty tunes worthy of Ray Wylie Hubbard." - Calvin Powers, The Americana Music Show
“…Chad Elliott stands out as a timeless and genuine musical poet with supple-strong roots like the bluestem and buffalo grass of Iowa prairie.” - Todd Partridge, NoDepression.com
"In the wide scope of Americana music live stories timeless as the land. With dynamic swells amid driven and transient melodies, Chad Elliott tells them one song at a time," - Sam Burrish, Sioux City Journal
Awards and Honors
2020 Kerrville New Folk - Finalist
2018 Kerrville New Folk - Finalist
2015 LEAF Newsong Finalist
2015 Unsigned Only Competition - Semi-Finalist - Americana
2015 Folk Alliance International - Official Showcase
2014 Newsong Contest - Midwest Finalist
2013 Top 25 Albums on brokenjukebox.com - So Sang the Crow
2013 Iowa Blues Challenge - Winner Solo/Duo
2013 Rising Star - Finalist
2012 Show Me the Music Song Contest - Finalist - Americana
2012 Int. Folk Alliance Conference - Official Showcase Artist
2011 Iowa Motion Picture Awards - Best Original Music Score
2011 Mixies Award - "Most Creative Tour" - One Horse Town Tour
2009 International Songwriting Contest - 3rd Place Winner - Americana
2009 Woody Guthrie Song Contest - 1st Place Winner
2008 Kerrville New Folk - Finalist
2006 Folkalley.com’s - Open Mic Winner
2006 Just Plain Folks - Top 20 New Folk Songs
Discography
2024 - Untested Wings
2021 - Singing River
2020- Tangle with the Ghost
2019 - King Pelican
2018 - Rest Heavy
2017 - RINGGOLD
2015 - Wreck and Ruin
2013 - So Sang the Crow
2010 - The Den Sessions - 10 Volume Set
2009 - Redemption Man
2008 - Swiftsure
2006 - Humbled At My Door
2004 - Bowl of Stars
2004 - Starling Songs
2003 - (homemade) Bowl of Stars
2001 - New Young Destination
1999 - Greener Grass - One Man's Junk
Author Bio:
C.A.(Chad Allen) Elliott’s path in poetry began with a love of music. For over 20 years Elliott has performed his original songs across the U.S. winning several awards for composition, such as the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Award in 2009. Elliott has penned nearly 2,000 songs. Early in his career, he learned some verses need no musical embellishment. They stand alone in their own cadence.
“…Chad Elliott stands out as a timeless and genuine musical poet with supple-strong roots like the bluestem and buffalo grass of Iowa prairie.” - NoDepression.com
In Rumble & Flash, Elliott shares poems composed on the road. These poems are steeped in archetypal themes like fatherhood, love, nature, and spirituality. Rumble & Flash was released on April 3, 2018 through Yellow Suit Publishing.
“Chad Elliott takes cultural adventurers to new realms in RUMBLE & FLASH. His content is beautifully accessible, openly inviting. Published as a collection of poems, between this book’s covers lies a vast network of creative pathways to explore. Poems, lyrics without music, future songs, unfiltered observations – Elliott shares with the wonder and appreciation of a child, embodied in an experienced, well-traveled troubadour.” - John Busbee, The Culture Buzz on KFMG
Other published works by C. A. Elliott include a children’s book filled with imaginative lyrics titled, Wilderman’s Treetop Tales. Author’s Favorite lauded the book saying, "Author Chad Elliott has outdone himself by incorporating music, poetry, stories, and illustrations all into one book." Elliott has also released 22 music albums.
Website: www.chadelliott.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/elliottmusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/chadelliottlive
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/chadelliottmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/chadelliottmusic/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/chadelliottmusic
Venmo: @ChadElliottMusic
Paypal: http://PayPal.me/ChadElliottMusic
Patreon: http://Patreon.com/ChadElliott
Videos
Solo:
"Same Old Way" Official Video - http://youtu.be/ZYTRM7BG9jA
"Brooklyn" Live Recording - https://youtu.be/aFtdQy8e8mE
"Mystery to Me" Live Recording - https://youtu.be/Dhsjwof4B3Q
Band:
"Shy of Shameless" Official Video at Sun Studio - https://youtu.be/uDJ-7nhmbO4
"Saint James Infirmary" Live w/ Full Band - https://youtu.be/G655fnIdYcU
Booking/Press Contact
Alyssa Elliott
www.homefirebooking.com
[email protected]
515-460-5634
Stage Plots
Chad Elliott Solo Stage Plot
Songwriting Short Bio:
Midwest singer-songwriter Chad Elliott blends folk roots, swampy blues and soulful writing to deliver music that is unmistakably original. His live performances have been honed over 25 years on the road performing more than 200 shows each year. Elliott is lauded as “Iowa’s Renaissance man” by Culture Buzz Magazine.
Songwriting Full Bio:
“In 1996, I was a young artist. I graduated college, got married and moved from Iowa to remote Northwest Montana. Finding work was difficult. To make ends meet, I took a job painting signs. When I wasn't holding a brush, I began teaching myself how to write songs and play guitar beside the clear, rolling rivers in the Rocky Mountain shadows. Thus began my lifelong endeavor to be a folksinger.” - Chad Elliott
Nearly 30 years have passed since those first songs sprang to life. Now, Midwest singer-songwriter Chad Elliott blends folk roots, swampy blues and soulful writing to deliver music that is unmistakably original. His live performances have been honed over 25 years on the road performing more than 200 shows each year.
Elliott is lauded as “Iowa’s Renaissance man” by Culture Buzz Magazine. He has penned more than 2,000 songs in his career while also cultivating his skills as a painter, sculptor and illustrator at Elliott Art Studio in Jefferson, IA. Elliott is also an author (Wilderman’s Treetop Tales; Rumble & Flash).
“That man’s music is as honest as was Woody Guthrie’s.” - Atesh Sonneborn, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Elliott has worked with many of the best folk-blues songwriters and shared the stage with artists of the highest caliber, including Odetta, Tom Paxton, Loudon Wainwright III, R.L. Burnside, Greg Brown, Ruthie Foster, Verlon Thompson, Jimmie Vaughan, Bo Ramsey and Mary Gauthier.
Through the years, Elliott has been influenced by many genres of music. This passion is reflected in his diverse recording projects. Elliott released his 22nd album, Rest Heavy: The Sun Studio Sessions, in 2018. Greg Brown said of the new album, it’s “low, loose and full of juice. This album’s got a lot of life to it.”
With Rest Heavy, Elliott shows his love of roots-rock, soul, and blues music with a rocking band behind his artfully crafted songs and gravelly delivery. Elliott, performing on acoustic guitar and harmonica, is joined by his full band, The Redemptions, including Tommy Lewis, Travis McFarlane, Kevin Boehnke, Joseph Cafaro, and Jim Van Dorn. The self-produced album was recorded at the famed Sun Studio in Memphis, TN by Ples Hampton. Hampton said, “It was honestly one of the best sessions I've ever had up here. This is gold.”
In November 2019 Elliott released King Pelican. This album holds 8 tracks recorded live with his band, The Redemptions, during a set for The Sun Studio Sessions documentary series featured on PBS. The entire album delivers the goods. It is a colorful album including songs such as the title track, a fun New Orleans-style number about a ne'er-do-well character, and "Paris," which would make Humphrey Bogart shed a tear. King Pelican was released Nov. 3, 2019.
Elliott’s 24th studio album, Tangle with the Ghost, is a rich collection of Americana roots songs. It was recorded alongside other Iowa artists at Old School Studios in Auburn, IA with producer/artist Todd Partridge. The record is sonically diverse. Each track is like a painting or vignette reckoning with the dark night of the soul. “Sometimes you must do the things that frighten you the most. That’s why I still tangle with the ghost,” Elliott sings on the title track. Tangle with the Ghost was released in November 2020.
Chad Elliott released his 25th album, Singing River, on May 17, 2021. He traveled to Muscle Shoals, AL with famed Iowa musician and producer Bo Ramsey to lay the tracks. Singing River was recorded at FAME Recording Studios, where music legends Etta James, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and many others laid renowned songs into the fabric of time. Ramsey, who produced Singing River, lent his signature sound on guitar. He was joined by two original Muscle Shoals Swampers, Spooner Oldham and David Hood. The new Americana/roots/blues mix that arose in Singing River is exactly the sound Elliott was hoping to create.
With 25 albums under his belt, Elliott's writing is highly respected among his peers of fellow songwriters. His songs have won multiple awards. (Woody Guthrie Song Contest, Kerrville NewFolk, 3rd Place International Songwriting Competition, International Blues Challenge Semi-finalist). Elliott is releasing his 26th album, Untested Wings, in 2024.
Along with his solo concerts, Elliott performs as part of the folk duo Weary Ramblers. Kathryn Severing Fox, a celebrated string player, is the second part of this duo. Weary Ramblers are set to release their debut album in 2024.
Press Quotes:
"This album just oozes soul, truth, and seems rather timeless as it could have been recorded almost any time in the last fifty-sixty years." - Jim Hynes, Elmore Magazine review of Rest Heavy (US)
"There is so much to be loved about this album. From start to finish, it's a masterpiece of deep soul and blues that shows you all the pictures of the places that inspired its sounds in every song. You need this album in your collection..." - Amanda Marcazo, The Jamwich magazine review of Rest Heavy (US)
“Chad Elliott has assembled not only a great group of songs, but some of Nashville's finest roots music practitioners and producer drummer Ken Coomer to make a soulful and beautiful album. Townes would be proud.” - Will Kimbrough said of Chad Elliott'sWreck and Ruin album
"That breaks my heart and puts it back together again," - Lori Walsh, South Dakota Public Radio (US), of "Painters and Boxers" song
"Chad Elliott is a veteran singer/songwriter who writes smooth, feel good songs ranging from soulful drinking songs to upbeat road-tunes to down and dirty tunes worthy of Ray Wylie Hubbard." - Calvin Powers, The Americana Music Show
“…Chad Elliott stands out as a timeless and genuine musical poet with supple-strong roots like the bluestem and buffalo grass of Iowa prairie.” - Todd Partridge, NoDepression.com
"In the wide scope of Americana music live stories timeless as the land. With dynamic swells amid driven and transient melodies, Chad Elliott tells them one song at a time," - Sam Burrish, Sioux City Journal
Awards and Honors
2020 Kerrville New Folk - Finalist
2018 Kerrville New Folk - Finalist
2015 LEAF Newsong Finalist
2015 Unsigned Only Competition - Semi-Finalist - Americana
2015 Folk Alliance International - Official Showcase
2014 Newsong Contest - Midwest Finalist
2013 Top 25 Albums on brokenjukebox.com - So Sang the Crow
2013 Iowa Blues Challenge - Winner Solo/Duo
2013 Rising Star - Finalist
2012 Show Me the Music Song Contest - Finalist - Americana
2012 Int. Folk Alliance Conference - Official Showcase Artist
2011 Iowa Motion Picture Awards - Best Original Music Score
2011 Mixies Award - "Most Creative Tour" - One Horse Town Tour
2009 International Songwriting Contest - 3rd Place Winner - Americana
2009 Woody Guthrie Song Contest - 1st Place Winner
2008 Kerrville New Folk - Finalist
2006 Folkalley.com’s - Open Mic Winner
2006 Just Plain Folks - Top 20 New Folk Songs
Discography
2024 - Untested Wings
2021 - Singing River
2020- Tangle with the Ghost
2019 - King Pelican
2018 - Rest Heavy
2017 - RINGGOLD
2015 - Wreck and Ruin
2013 - So Sang the Crow
2010 - The Den Sessions - 10 Volume Set
2009 - Redemption Man
2008 - Swiftsure
2006 - Humbled At My Door
2004 - Bowl of Stars
2004 - Starling Songs
2003 - (homemade) Bowl of Stars
2001 - New Young Destination
1999 - Greener Grass - One Man's Junk
Author Bio:
C.A.(Chad Allen) Elliott’s path in poetry began with a love of music. For over 20 years Elliott has performed his original songs across the U.S. winning several awards for composition, such as the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Award in 2009. Elliott has penned nearly 2,000 songs. Early in his career, he learned some verses need no musical embellishment. They stand alone in their own cadence.
“…Chad Elliott stands out as a timeless and genuine musical poet with supple-strong roots like the bluestem and buffalo grass of Iowa prairie.” - NoDepression.com
In Rumble & Flash, Elliott shares poems composed on the road. These poems are steeped in archetypal themes like fatherhood, love, nature, and spirituality. Rumble & Flash was released on April 3, 2018 through Yellow Suit Publishing.
“Chad Elliott takes cultural adventurers to new realms in RUMBLE & FLASH. His content is beautifully accessible, openly inviting. Published as a collection of poems, between this book’s covers lies a vast network of creative pathways to explore. Poems, lyrics without music, future songs, unfiltered observations – Elliott shares with the wonder and appreciation of a child, embodied in an experienced, well-traveled troubadour.” - John Busbee, The Culture Buzz on KFMG
Other published works by C. A. Elliott include a children’s book filled with imaginative lyrics titled, Wilderman’s Treetop Tales. Author’s Favorite lauded the book saying, "Author Chad Elliott has outdone himself by incorporating music, poetry, stories, and illustrations all into one book." Elliott has also released 22 music albums.